Lindores Abbey

Lindores Abbey
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The ruins of a foundation of the Benedictine Order established in 1178, situated on the eastern outskirts of Newburgh in NW Fife. The monks cultivated fruit growing in the area and it was one, named John Cor, who was the first recorded distiller of whisky (in the Exchequer Rolls of 1495). The monks were ousted during the Reformation in the 16th Century and subsequently the greater part of the abbey's red sandstone has been plundered for local house building.

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